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Most of the debian log files kept in /var/log directory are owned by root or adm. If we want to read them then we need to either do sudo or su.

Is...

My 28th annual 40th birthday is coming up soon and this year I'm asking the wife for the parts to build a 512gb external NVMe that I'm hoping will...

Raspberry Pi OS (bookworm). CUPS is running.
@raspberrypi:~ $ ps -ef | grep cups
root 769 1 0 11:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l
root 1089 1 0...

Think Server TS140, BIOS update 2021?
Three hard disks with;
Windows 10 and a Linux
Windows 11 and another Linux
Debian 12 GNOME - this is a...

I would like to install Debian 11 to a fibrechannel SAN, I can see I am supposed to add a 'install disk-detect/multipath/enable=true' to the boot...

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My step father has a SAMSUNG Galaxy J7 smart phone and when I plug it to USB port , the phone doesn't ask for connection while when he...

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For some time I'm having trouble printing to Kyocera printers via a Debian12 print server.
Actualy it's not just me but 220 users who use...

Dear Debian Community,

I was just wondering why 1080p playback works on specific browsers that come with the distribution (trixie=testing)

firefox,...

Sony Vaio, Legacy Boot, originally with Windows 7
3G DRAM, 250G SSD.
Windows 10 and Debian 12, XFCE new installation yesterday.

I installed Gdebi...

I built up a computer with a new DVD-RW drivre, I tried to listen to audio CD or rip audio CD as MP3. Unfortunately, even when error checking is set...

Yesterday I upgraded all apt packages. Since then when I click on a GNOME app like calculator, settings or terminal in the dock to start it, it takes...

If so, you can prevent the kvm module's new selfish load at boot and not let other virtualization run behaviour with a kvm.conf setting:

echo...

I have an old Pavilion G6 that I want to restore. Its working well except for one thing, the screen lid hinges cannot be screwed anymore to the...

How can I export an application installed on Debian, in portable mode?

Searching around (both here and on other forums) I've come to realize this is a somewhat common issue. Alas, there doesn't seem to be a specific...

Hi.
I am using LMDE, and since I could not solve my problem on Mint's forum , I thought I would try it here.

The problem that I have is that the...

I have a set of Logitech z533 speakers. Whenever I plug them in, I only get sound coming out of the left speaker. And yes, I already checked the...

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I have a Qualcomm WCN6856, which has the ath11k drivers running correctly. I want to host an AP on it, to be able to connect toi it...

I can't see anything when use Screen Capture on OBS (pipewire)

Hi guys!
I use Linux Mint 22.1 as my daily driver on my XPS 13 9340 (2024) and here the wecam (and everything else) works out of the box using the...

In January installed from the 'DI-alpha1 _Trixie_ - Official Alpha amd64 NETINST with firmware 20241230' image and sound worked for some time, but...

Hello community!
Sorry for long description!
Had to do:

boot: rescue
grub-install '(sda1)'

in attempt to restore GRUB of successfully installed...

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I know the limitations of Xorg. I have one DP monitor (1440p 180Hz) that I normally use and a 4K 60Hz TV that I only plug into my computer via...

Hello, any one can tell why there's a huge difference on RAM usage on gnome system monitor showing much more than on htop?

I wanted to install the Cinnamon Sounds, so I installed the mint-artwork package from the Mint Repository in addition to these dependencies:...

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I have a problem with one of my external usb disks. I have two different 8TB Seagate disks (ext4) on my homeserver (debian 12) and I...

I have a laptop with two AMD GPUs (integrated+dedicated). I noticed that HDMI doesn't work at all when I plug it in until I run the xrandr command....

I was trying to install drivers for a usb wifi extender and when I went to sudo apt upgrade I get the error message
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg...

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I'm running Debian on OpenMediaVault and I've encountered an error with Samba. I can copy a file to my NAS but it fails halfwaythrough...

I have found the advanced install feature, that allows me to configure the network in /etc/network/interfaces
but once I reboot, it is still doing...

If I'm not mistaken, this is not a problem on Legacy + MBR disks (it might be?), but when using UEFI + GPT...
Scenario: Windows already installed on...

hi,
I have a c program to show the linux error codes
#include
#include
#include

extern int errno;

int main(void){

char *err_str;

for(int i...

My Debian 12 Plasma desktop monitor goes blank with a No Signal message right after the GRUB screen. However, I can still access the system via SSH...

Hello. I recently installed Debian Mate in an old laptop I've been using for looong time ago, with windows 7. I refused to use newer iterations of...

Hi! I have an Acer laptop with an integrated Intel GPU and a dedicated Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU. I use debian 12 with gnome and wayland. As per...

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I installed Debian 12 on a Dell Inc. Inspiron N5010 laptop with Intel® Core™ i3 M 370 × 4 processor, 3GB memory, AMD CEDAR graphics. While I...

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I am relatively new to linux. I have spent hours looking at various distros and had settled on Debian. Great! However I have tried and tried,...

Hello Community!
Got rid off LVM partitions from both of my HDD and SDD recently. Which can be seen in my older posts.
Used 'Calamares' from...

I am on stable $ uname -r
6.1.0-31-amd64 Is there a way to show DDR5 memory temperature by, says, lm-sensors command?

Web searches seem pointing to...

Hello. I'd like to test Debian on older 32bit PC
And I'd like to increase security by using Opensnitch firewall but I realised that Opensnitch has no...

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I am exploring the possibilities of grep-dctrl.
My current experiment is to try and show the description of a package that is not...

I read from this wiki
systemd has its own logging system called the journal; therefore, running a syslog daemon is no longer required
I checked in...

Edit: it seems it fixed itself today...this is crazy :lol:

Hi,
I am using Debian 12 with nvidia 1070 ti with gnome(x11)
Current setup 1080p@75hz...

I recently decided to switch from Stable (Bookworm) to Testing (Trixie/Sid). Everything is working great *except* when I plug in an HDMI cord I no...

Ever seen anything like this?

Only upon reboot, all my autostarted xterm windows print a series of garbage lines before the bash prompt, and the...

Good morning.
I realized that with LXQT on debian 11 there is no graphical application for managing Bluetooth devices.
I think the integrated card is...

Hello. So my webcam is not working.

I've tried the following software:
* cheese (the simplest.)
* vlc (lots of settings available.)
* guvcview (I'm...

Raspberry Pi OS (bookworm).

I want to try spectacle but apt doesn't know where is it at. (Note link.)

How do I install it ?

Hello,

In Synaptic the section of repos are empty, and there is nothing in /etc/apt/sources.list either;

-- but the system updates without...